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Is that at all influenced by regional differences in the Poles that came to Chicago? I grew up with a lot of first-gen highlander Polish-Americans (in the Chi
by kevinmchugh 3y ago
Is that at all influenced by regional differences in the Poles that came to Chicago? I grew up with a lot of first-gen highlander Polish-Americans (in the Chicago suburbs). They apparently have some differences with earlier important groups, eg, my family friends who pronounce grandmother "Busia".
- andrewshadura 3y agoI'm a Belarusian, and Busia totally makes sense to me (as a simplification of babusia/babula), even though I probably wouldn't use it myself.
- kevinmchugh 3y ago"important" should be "immigrant" here
- idlewords 3y agoHighlanders have their own dialect, but it's intelligible the same way Londoners can understand Scots. What happens after long exposure to Chicago is that half the lexicon gets swapped out with English words pronounced with Polish phonetics. Those people in their youth spoke very easily understandable Polish, but what they speak today makes sense only to them.
- Pet_Ant 3y agoHighlanders = górale ?
- kevinmchugh 3y agoI think so? Google suggests that's what I mean? In English - the only language I know - they always said Highlanders. The only other distinguishing piece of information I have is that this was a common car window sticker: https://i.etsystatic.com/16056651/r/il/a2f7e1/2469515581/il_794xN.2469515581_7apx.jpg https://i.etsystatic.com/16056651/r/il/a2f7e1/2469515581/il_...